Camilla Mayer
Four high-wire artists became known under the stage name Camilla Mayer , each with the female lead of the high- wire troupe Camilio Mayer .
Camilla Mayer , real name Lotte Witte (* 1918 in Stettin; † January 20, 1940 in Berlin ).
Camilla Mayer joined the Mayer's high wire troop in the early 1930s and took his name as the most talented of his artists. In 1935 she performed free-standing on a 53 meter high steel mast in Atlantic City (USA), which was a world record at the time. In 1936 she narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Clacton-on-Sea (Great Britain) when strangers sawed the holding ropes on this steel mast. On January 20, 1940, however, there was no rescue for her when she fell from a 20-meter steel mast in the presence of people, animals, sensations (circus show) in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle . She was given a grave of honor in the main cemetery in Szczecin.
Lotte Witte's successor was Camilla Mayer 2 . Two female artists shared this name. The first was Ruth Hempel , later Ruth Herold, living in Dortmund . She was then replaced for only one year by Ruth Barwinske (born February 18, 1926 in Breslau; † February 28, 2005 in Haßloch; from 1947 wife of Alois Geryk, head of the Bob Gerry troupe ). When several artists left Camilio Mayer, Ruth Hempel founded the " Camilla Mayer Troupe ", led by Hans Zimmer. 1943 ban on performing, 1945 restart. With her, the film Artists under the clouds was shot in 1947 . The “Camilla Mayer Troop” showed the seven-person pyramid before 1943, that is, in front of the Wallendas .
Camilla Mayer 3 , real name Annemarie Mayer , née Füldner , had met Camilio Mayer in the mid-1940s in Stedten an der Ilm , became his wife and became a worthy successor to Lotte Witte , Ruth Hempel and Ruth Barwinske as the front girl of the Mayer high wire troop. After her “artistic retirement” she ran an inn in Stedten an der Ilm, most recently she lived in Weimar .